No Cybersecurity Coverage Owed For Phishing Scam Losses, California Panel Affirms

(June 4, 2024, 1:57 PM EDT) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California appeals panel on June 3 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that an insurer owes no coverage for an insured’s losses arising from a phishing scam, determining that the insured failed to assert a “direct financial loss” to trigger coverage under the cybersecurity insurance policy....